Directions: Read the sentence below. Then answer the questions that follow.
Rachel painstakingly ironed her linen shirt all the while, she was thinking
how pointless this chore was since linen begins to wrinkle the moment after
the last button is fastened.
Is this sentence a comma splice? If you believe it is a comma splice, use your mouse to choose the left door below. A comma splice, remember, is two complete sentences incorrectly joined with a comma.
Or is the sentence a fused sentence? If you believe it is a fused sentence, then use your mouse to choose the right door. A fused sentence occurs when a writer incorrectly runs two complete sentences together with absolutely no punctuation.
Either way you win a prize—but only the correct choice is a cool cyber prize!
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